Ballerina: A Step-By-Step Guide to Ballet [With DVD]

by Jane Hackett

Book Overview

Learn the beautiful art of ballet

Young dancers will love working through the pages of this ballet book. Beautiful photography, informative text, and an instructional DVD will take aspiring ballerinas from the basics of ballet to their first barre exercises, pas de bourr es, petit allegros and glissades.

Here's what you'll discover inside this illustrated ballet guide:

- Features practical, step-by-step photography of students ages 6-9 and aspirational photography of real ballet students ages 12-15
- Step-by-steps for individual positions combine with complete dances to give the dancer an understanding of how it all fits together
- Close-ups of hand positions and feet positions will ensure that the reader can perfect their moves down to the last detail
- The DVD expands the world of the book by seeing the moves and individual dances in motion. Children can practice by dancing along with the DVD

Ballerina: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ballet, written by English National Ballet School's Jane Hackett, is an authoritative guide on the art of ballet dancing. The book is the perfect reference for young ballerinas which they can use from their first lesson. The DVD allows readers to follow movements in their own time and brings the ballet class into the living room or home studio.

The ballet book shows dancers everything they need to know about ballet. Discover what to wear to class, how to learn simple arabesques, and master complete dances. The detailed step-by-step photography breaks down each movement while the close-ups and annotations point out the important details needed to perfect each move.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756626684
• ISBN13: 9780756626686
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Fun for our 5 year old

We got this because our daughter was interested in dance, but we didn't have the money to just throw into dance not knowing if she would stay interested in it. This book gave her fun things learn and practice. The book is great in teaching ballet basics. The video is a little fast for a young child not knowing very much, but could be useful later.

This is fully enjoyed

I purchased this for my just 7 year old granddaughter. She practices at least twice a week in her room. She likes to show off to her parents what she has learned. I wouldn't mind getting another just for myself because I never had the opportunity when I was young and it would give me an up when I am spending time with her.

Lovely photos and helpful DVD

My two daughters take ballet and enjoyed reading this book together. It has great photos and teaches the technical terms in an easy to comprehend manner. My younger daughter really took to this book and uses it as a fun reference. The included DVD is very helpful and it's a good deal to receive it included with the book. My daughters dance together with the DVD. Highly recommended. We also enjoy the Element DVD (we love Elise Gulan), the Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories (with CD), the Ballet Friends book series, and the Ballet for Beginners DVD.

Beautiful book

This is a wonderful book. My daughter takes ballet and wanted a book that included technical terms for positions and steps. This book was perfect. Beautiful photos. Now she can even practice her ballet at home with the DVD.

Ballerina: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ballet

My daughter loves this book and uses the DVD to teach herself ballet. She dances almost everyday of the week with it. And has seen great improvement in her ballet.